Nazmi Tawfiq Al-ShalabiDepartment of English Language and LiteratureFaculty of Arts, the Hashemite UniversityZarqa, Jordan

Abstract :

This study offers a postmodernist reading of Tyler’s Breathing Lessons, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast of Champions .Using argumentation as a method, it comprises an original work devoted to demonstrating that these novels are postmodern. While Tyler’s novel exemplifies postmodernism, a twentieth-century movement in art and literature, in its indirect narrative method, focus on ordinary humans, highlighting family disintegration, and demonstrating that marriage is no longer a safe anchor in life, Rhys’s emphasizes Antoinette’s struggle for independence, uses irony, and is open-ended. Vonnegut’s novel ,similarly, makes use of intertextuality, depicts characters lacking free will, employs collage, and selects a content and style that are both skeptical. Obviously, each one of these novels reflects postmodernism in its own way. Key Words: polar opposites, postmodernism, reaction, reference, self-reflexivity